高中英语 VOA慢速英语《美国万花筒》第22课（文本）素材.doc

高中英语 voa慢速英语美国万花筒第22课（文本）素材英语翻议讲解：1.inventive adj.有发明才能的;显示创造力的 例句：inventive work 创造性的作品 he was highly inventive. 他极富发明创造能力。2.recycle vt.回收利用；再利用 例句：recycling of rubbish costs money and requires special equipment. 回收利用垃圾的造价很高, 又需要专用设备。3.rewarding adj.报答的;值得做的;有益的;有报酬的;值得的 例句：a satisfying as well as a financially rewarding career 令人满意且薪水丰厚的职业 i did not expect the job to be intrinsically rewarding. 我并没有期望这份工作本身会有什么好处。4.mystery n.神秘(性), 秘密(性)，不可思议，奥秘 例句：he often tells stories full of mystery. 他常讲些充满神秘色彩的故事。5.consonant n.辅音6.hardly adv.几乎没有, 几乎不 例句：he could hardly see anything. 他几乎什么也看不到。 im so tired that i can hardly walk. 我太累, 简直走不动了。1.the eleven owners of pedal people not only pick up and remove trash and recycling. pick up拾起, 捡起; 抬起 例句：he picked up the child and put her on his shoulders. 他抱起孩子, 让她骑在自己的肩膀上。安排接取; 使搭乘; 搭救 例句：the ship calls at each port on this coast to pick up passengers and mail. 那艘轮船在沿海每个港口停下, 搭载乘客和接取邮件。2.first of all, how pig latin got its name is a mystery. the language has nothing to do with farm animals or ancient rome.have nothing to do with与没关系 例句：this has nothing to do with you. 这事与你无关。英语听力原文：host:welcome to american mosaic in voa special english.(music)im doug johnson.today, we play music from a new album by rosanne cash .and answer a question about the strange secret language called pig latin .but first, we tell about a business that provides non-polluting transport services.pedal peopleon monday, leaders from around the world will meet in denmark for the united nations climate change conference. but locally, people are working every day to improve the health of the planet in smaller ways. pedal people in northampton, massachusetts, has found an inventive way of transporting goods and services without creating pollution. mario ritter tells us more.mario ritter:pedal people calls itself a worker-owned, human-powered transport service. it was started in two thousand two by ruthy woodring and alex jarrett. the city of northampton does not provide trash and recycling pick-up services.so, mister jarrett would take his recycling materials to the local center himself using his bicycle and a trailer. he and miz woodring thought that other people in town might pay them to remove trash and recycling materials instead of using a private trash company that uses trucks.ruthy woodring helped start pedal peoplethe two wanted to use bicycles as transport because they believe strongly in human power. they do not like the idea of depending on vehicles that use gasoline. they created pedal people as a way to create a useful service that helps the local economy and is environmentally friendly. miz woodring says she enjoys bicycling everywhere. she can get to know her neighborhoods paths, enjoy the trees and experience the changes in weather.today, pedal people has twelve workers. more than four hundred people pay for their services. and, the city of northampton is one of their biggest customers.the eleven owners of pedal people not only pick up and remove trash and recycling. they also remove large objects such as washing machines, beds and refrigerators. the workers use trailer devices which link to their bicycles and can carry up to about one hundred thirty kilos. they also pick up and transport food to home owners. and, they provide gardening services that are environmentally friendly. they do all this work year-round, even during the cold and snowy winter months in massachusetts.we asked ben winter how he came to work for pedal people. he said he has always been interested in different ways of making a living. he said at first he just thought the idea of pedal people was really cool. now he says it has also become a rewarding livelihood.pig latinour question this week comes from china. yuqi cao wants to know about the strange language called pig latin, or igpay atinlay in pig latin.first of all, how pig latin got its name is a mystery. the language has nothing to do with farm animals or ancient rome. pig latin is simply minor changes that are made to words to make a funny, secret language.in traditional pig latin, the first consonant sound of a word is moved to the end of the word and then an -ay is added to that.so, pig becomes igpay. latin becomes atinlay. some words start with vowels. so, these words just get an -ay, or sometimes a -way, sound on the end. ant becomes antay or antway, excellent changes to excellentay, and so on.sometimes children use pig latin. they can share information with their friends without their parents, or other adults, knowing what they are saying.for example, you might hear the following in a school hallway around examination time:eatgray ewsnay, udesday! eganmay otgay ethay answersway otay ethay esttay extnay eekway! or:great news, dudes! megan got the answers to the test next week!of course, all adults were once children. and pig latin is hardly new. journalist john hailman wrote that president thomas jefferson wrote whole letters to friends using pig latin in the early eighteen hundreds. so, it is probably not the safest secret language for those really private talks.pig latin is not the only coded language that children use. gibberish adds the sound dduguh to every syllable of each word. so, hello becomes heddugell-uddugo.(sound)she said: gibberish is tricky but worth it. fewer people know it than pig latin.reporter caty weaver learned gibberish and another secret language, called ibeese, in middle school. she and her best friend still use it, especially when they do not want their children to know what they are talking about.rosanne cashrosanne cash is a singer and songwriter best known as a country musician. but her songs are also influenced by rock and pop music. her latest album, the list, is based on advice given to rosanne by her father, the country music great johnny cash. katherine cole tells us more.katherine cole:when rosanne cash was eighteen years old, she was traveling with her father on a performance tour. they started talking about well known country and folk songs. johnny cash realized that his daughter did not know many of his favorite songs. so, he sat in the back of the bus and spent the rest of the afternoon making a list of one hundred important songs. these were the songs he felt his daughter had to know. he told her that the songs would be her education.rosanne cashs latest album, the list, features twelve of the songs her father chose for her thirty-five years ago. here is the nineteen fifty song im movin on, written by hank snow.rosanne cash says she made a point of learning most of the songs on her fathers list. but then she moved on to have a successful career performing her own songs. in two thousand five, she found the list again and